University System of Maryland

The Universities at Shady Grove, part of the University System of Maryland, has started building a Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Education Facility to train university students from around the state for in-demand STEM-related jobs in healthcare, biosciences, engineering and computational sciences.

The $36.7 million, state-funded facility will open in 2019 on the Rockville campus, allowing research universities such as the University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Maryland, College Park, and UMBC to offer undergraduate and graduate degree courses. Shady Grove will boost its student capacity to 7,500 from the current 4,000. The new building will include teaching...

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